Recently Funded Startups in Santa Clara
Updated Oct 2026
FundedIQ tracks 157 funded startups in Santa Clara, with their funding rounds, amounts, investors, industries, locations and company details. This page provides an overview of the startup funding landscape in Santa Clara, along with the 100 most recently funded startups there.
Startups in Santa Clara closed 76 funding rounds over the last 24 months, 47 of them in the last 12 months, and raised $5.1B in disclosed capital. The median disclosed round is $26M, with the middle half of rounds falling between $11M and $100M. Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Consumer Electronics hold the most companies by sector.
Artificial Intelligence dominates the local funding mix. Heavy involvement from Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz indicates a preference for high scale infrastructure and hardware. These companies often operate with substantial staff sizes. Approaching these firms means engaging with established corporate structures rather than small seed teams.
Santa Clara funded startup statistics
Most recent funding round on record: Sep 2026. Investors appearing most often across Santa Clara funding rounds: Alumni Ventures, Maverick Silicon, Plug and Play.
100 most recently funded startups in Santa Clara
100 of 157Ordered by the date of the latest funding round. Each row gives the company, its location and industry, what it does, the stage and date of that round, and the disclosed amount.
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Santa Clara startup funding trends
Funding activity
Startups in Santa Clara closed 76 funding rounds over the last 24 months, 47 of them in the last 12, adding up to $5.1B in disclosed capital.
Round sizes
The median disclosed round is $26M, with the middle half running from $11M to $100M. 63 of 76 rounds disclosed an amount.
Sectors
Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Consumer Electronics hold the most companies, led by Artificial Intelligence at 54. The most common headcount band across the segment is 11-50.
Investors
Alumni Ventures, Maverick Silicon and Plug and Play appear most often across funded startups in Santa Clara on record.
Industries with the most funded startups in Santa Clara
Sector counts across all 157 tracked companies in Santa Clara. A company assigned more than one industry is counted in each.
Top investors in Santa Clara startups
The investors named most often across funded startups in Santa Clara.
Counts companies in this segment that name the firm as a backer. Investor names entered the pipeline in July 2026, so they cover the companies funded since.
Funding stages in Santa Clara
How the last 24 months of funding rounds for funded startups in Santa Clara break down by stage.
A further 27 rounds in this period were announced without a stage label and are not ranked above.
About the FundedIQ Santa Clara startup funding data
FundedIQ tracks announced startup funding rounds and organises them by company, funding date, stage, amount, industry, location and investor. The dataset is refreshed weekly, and new rounds are normalised and de-duplicated before they are published, so the same round reported twice on different dates is recorded once.
Figures on this page cover the 157 funded startups in Santa Clara currently tracked. Round counts, capital totals and the median round are computed over a trailing 24 months. Rounds whose amount was not disclosed (13 of 76 in that period) are counted as rounds but excluded from capital totals and from the median. The most recent round on record for funded startups in Santa Clara is dated Sep 2026.
The table above shows the 100 most recently funded companies. Full funding histories, investor lists and founder contacts across the whole dataset open on a FundedIQ plan.
Frequently asked questions
How many funded startups are there in Santa Clara?
FundedIQ tracks 157 funded startups in Santa Clara. This page lists the 100 most recently funded of them, ordered by the date of their latest round, and the full set is available on a FundedIQ plan.
How much funding have startups in Santa Clara raised?
Startups in Santa Clara tracked by FundedIQ have raised $5.1B in disclosed capital across 76 funding rounds over the last 24 months, including 47 rounds in the last 12 months. 63 of those 76 rounds disclosed an amount; undisclosed rounds are excluded from the capital total.
What industries have the most funded startups in Santa Clara?
Artificial Intelligence has the most, with 54 companies, followed by Information Technology (21), Consumer Electronics (16) and Financial Services (10). Sector counts include every company assigned that industry, and a company can carry more than one.
Which investors back the most startups in Santa Clara?
Alumni Ventures, Maverick Silicon and Plug and Play appear most often across funded startups in Santa Clara in the FundedIQ dataset. The count is the number of tracked companies naming each firm as a backer, so it reflects the companies on record rather than every deal a firm has ever done.
What is a typical funding round size for startups in Santa Clara?
The median disclosed round over the last 24 months is $26M, and the middle half of rounds fall between $11M and $100M. Round sizes vary widely by stage, so the seed and later-stage bands sit well either side of that figure.
What is the most common funding stage for startups in Santa Clara?
Series A is the most common labelled stage, with 15 rounds in the last 24 months, ahead of Seed (13) and Series B (10). A further 27 rounds were announced without a stage label and are not counted here.
How often is the Santa Clara startup funding data updated?
The dataset is refreshed weekly. New rounds are normalised and de-duplicated before they are published, and the most recent round currently on record for funded startups in Santa Clara is dated Sep 2026. Counts and totals on this page are recomputed on every refresh.
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